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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Epiphany
Climax
Dramatic Irony
Dactyl
2. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Dialogue
Analogy
Structure
3. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Epigram
Elision
Voice
Subplot
4. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Quatrain
Personification
Paradox
External Conflict
5. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Trochee
Scenes
Myth
Folklore
6. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Audience
Rhyme
Antagonist
Climax
7. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Theme
Audience
Fiction
Satire
8. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Falling Action
Climax
Aside
Epic
9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Figurative Language
Octave
Act
10. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Flashback
Subject
Parable
Narrator
11. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
1st Person
Act
Situational Irony
Simile
12. A four line stanza in a poem.
Personification
Quatrain
Sestina
Conflict
13. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dactyl
Point of View
Allegory
Simile
14. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Reversal
Rising Action
Internal Conflict
Foreshadowing
15. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Villanelle
Character
Reversal
Setting
16. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Syntax
Plot
3rd Person (Limited)
Act
17. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Hyperbole
Dialogue
Repetition
Epiphany
18. The selection of words in a literary work.
Ballad
Diction
Figurative Language
Subject
19. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Catharsis
Assonance
Parody
Antagonist
20. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Oxymoron
Ballad
Synecdoche
Literal Language
21. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.
Couplet
Style
Apostrophe
Cliche
22. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Spondee
Falling Meter
Myth
Setting
23. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Verbal Irony
Meter
Foreshadowing
Falling Meter
24. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Repetition
Persona
Understatement
Hyperbole
25. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Tone
Irony
Solioquy
Enjambment
26. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Conflict
Exposition
Parallelism
1st Person
27. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Author's Purpose
Blank Verse
Anapest
Ballad
28. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Aside
Allusion
Internal Conflict
Allegory
29. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.
Satire
Rising Action
Dramatic Irony
Parody
30. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Legend
Parallelism
Elegy
Situational Irony
31. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Characterization
Author's Purpose
Complication
Structure
32. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Diction
Free Verse
Ode
Irony
33. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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34. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Subplot
Stanza
Meter
Convention
35. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Quatrain
1st Person
Epiphany
Exposition
36. A character struggles against some outside force.
Anapest
Point of View
Complication
External Conflict
37. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Dialect
Metaphor
3rd Person (Limited)
Legend
38. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Trochee
Metaphor
Falling Action
39. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Elision
Elegy
Denouement
Verbal Irony
40. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.
Symbolism
Legend
Denouement
Alliteration
41. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Dialogue
Catharsis
Sestina
Simile
42. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Symbol
Spondee
43. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Ballad
Point of View
Caesura
Symbolism
44. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Voice
Rising Action
Subplot
Characterization
45. The organizational form of a literary work.
3rd Person (Limited)
Structure
Repetition
Couplet
46. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Comic Relief
Parable
Solioquy
Tercet
47. A poem that tells a story.
Recognition
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Structure
Narrative Poem
48. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Solioquy
Stanza
Foreshadowing
Audience
49. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
3rd Person (Limited)
Falling Action
Oxymoron
Symbolism
50. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.
Oxymoron
Falling Meter
Ballad
Act
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